Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessary. Recently, when an American reproved a British editor for not printing news about U.S. shortages, the Briton replied: "Why, if we told our readers that we aren't so much worse off than the Americans, we'd be depriving ourselves of our last comfort...
Britons could take comfort in one reality: Argentina's best customer would continue to be Britain, and Argentines knew it. Buyer and seller must somehow find a way to get together...
Eating at home or in restaurants, comfort-loving, balding 40-year-old Russel Wright constantly watches his fellow diners gripping cups, mentally jots down shortcomings of conventional tableware. Back in his Manhattan studio, he designs clay models to eliminate the bugs. He has made 500 studies for cup handles alone. For his new set, he tried 35 shapes for cups, 60 different handles...
...Jesus] saw clearly that if all kindness were embodied in some legal system, and nothing were left to individual pity and self-denial, it would be a miserable world. Men might secure more comfort but they would miss the true end of life, which is to conform your own will to the will...
Last week a presidential fact-finding board, appointed only a few hours before a pilots' strike deadline at Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. last May, released its recommendations. There was comfort for both sides. The board, which hoped that its recommendations would form a pattern for the airline industry, upheld the pilots' plea to bargain individually with lines. The board also granted 1) an increase in base pay of international route pilots of $750 a year, 2) an increase which could be as much as 30% for copilots, 3) revision of the twelve-year-old overall hour & mileage...